Extending self-esteem theory and research : sociological and psychological currents

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Author:

Goodman, Norman.

ISBN:

9780521630887

Publication Information:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Physical Description:

ix, 458 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

1. The future of self-esteem: an introduction / Timothy J. Owens and Sheldon Stryker -- 2. The self as social product and social force: Morris Rosenberg and the elaboration of a deceptively simple effect / Gregory C. Elliott -- 3. Theorizing the relationship between self-esteem and identity / Laurie H. Ervin and Sheldon Stryker -- 4. Measuring self-esteem: race, ethnicity and gender considered / Timothy J. Owens and Adam B. King -- 5. The self as a social force / Viktor Gecas -- 6. Self-certainty and self-esteem / Ron Wright -- 7. Self-esteem of children and adolescents / David H. Demo -- 8. Failure of the dream: notes for a research program on self-esteem and failed identity in adulthood / Norman Goodman -- 9. Self-esteem and work across the life course / Carmi Schooler and Gary Oates -- 10. Comfort with the self / Roberta G. Simmons -- 11. Self-esteem and race / Pamela Braboy Jackson and Sonia P. Lassiter -- 12. Gender and self-esteem: narrative and efficacy in the negotiation of structural factors / Anne Statham and Katherine Rhoades -- 13. Bereavement and the loss of mattering / Leonard L. Pearlin and Allen J. LeBlanc -- 14. Self-esteem and social inequality / L. Edward Wells -- 15. Self-evaluation and stratification beliefs / Matthew O. Hunt -- 16. The science and politics of self-esteem: schools caught in the middle / Martin V. Convington -- 17. Self-esteem and deviant behavior: a critical review and theoretical integration / Howard B. Kaplan -- 18. Low self-esteem people: a collective portrait / Morris Rosenberg and Timothy J. Owens.

Abstract:

Self-esteem is an academic and popular phenomenon, vigorously researched and debated, sometimes imbued with magical qualities, other times vilified as the bane of the West's preoccupation with the self. Though thousands of articles have been devoted to the topic, and bookstores work to feed the public's appetite for advice on revealing, enhancing and maintaining self-esteem, conflicting claims and findings have placed the field in disarray. In a very real sense, self-esteem is a victim of its own popularity. This book seeks to add clarity to a concept earlier examined by such notable self theorists as Morris Rosenberg but eminently worthy of reexamination and extension. We do this by asking some leading thinkers on self-esteem theory, measurement, and application to assess what we know about self-esteem, link it to important aspects of society and the human experience, and position it for the twenty-first century.

Subject Term:

Self-esteem.

Added Author:

Goodman, Norman.

Stryker, Sheldon.

Owens, Timothy J. (Timothy Joseph)

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Self-esteem is an academic and popular phenomenon, vigorously researched and debated, sometimes imbued with magical qualities, other times vilified as the bane of the West's preoccupation with self. Though thousands of articles have been devoted to the topic, and bookshops work to feed the public's appetite for advice on revealing, enhancing and maintaining self-esteem, conflicting claims and findings have placed the field in disarray. In a very real sense, self-esteem is a victim of its own popularity. This book seeks to add clarity to a concept earlier examined by such notable self theorists as Morris Rosenberg but eminently worthy of re-examination and extension. We do this by asking some leading thinkers on self-esteem theory, measurement and application to assess what we know about self-esteem, and link it to important aspects of society and the human experience.